外 wài
-
noun
outside
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
preposition
out; outer
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: May be classified as a localizer because it can be appended to some nouns as a suffix to indicate location. For example, 户外 'outdoors.' (Guoyu '外' n 1; NCCED '外' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 903) -
adjective
external; outer
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; NCCED '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
noun
foreign countries
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 外国 (Guoyu '外' n 2; Kroll 2015 '外' 4; NCCED '外' 2; Unihan '外') -
noun
exterior; outer surface
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 2) -
noun
a remote place
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 5) -
prefix
maternal side; wife's family members
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 外甥 'nephew' - son of mother's sister (Guoyu '外' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '外' 6; NCCED '外' 7) -
noun
husband
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Term used by the husband's wife (Kroll 2015 '外' 7) -
adjective
other
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Other than one's own; in the sense of 别的 or 其他 (Guoyu '外' adj 3; NCCED '外' 3) -
verb
to be extra; to be additional
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '外' v 2; NCCED '外' 4) -
adjective
unofficial; informal; exoteric
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 外号 'alias' and 外传 'unofficial biography' (Kroll 2015 '外' 3; NCCED '外' 5) -
noun
role of an old man
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Drama
Notes: In Chinese opera (Guoyu '外' n 3; NCCED '外' 8) -
verb
to drift apart; to become estranged
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 疏远 (Guoyu '外' v 1) -
verb
to betray; to forsake
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 背叛 (Guoyu '外' v 3) -
adjective
outside; exterior
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: bāhya, Japanese: ge (BCSD '外', p. 311; DJBT '外', p. 436; MW 'bāhya'; SH '外', p. 184)
Contained in
- 外道 an outsider ; emphasis on formal politeness with lack of sincerity ; Heretics ; non-Buddhist
- 空衣外道 Digambara
- 雨际外道(雨際外道) Varsagana
- 天外有天，人外有人 there are always people who are better than you
- 外风界(外風界) external wind property
- 外缘(外緣) External Conditions ; external causes
- 指在外拳 outer binding first; waifu fist
- 不以内外色(不以內外色) either as an inside or an outside form
Also contained in
九霄云外 、 外翼 、 内外骚动 、 胳膊肘朝外拐 、 外星人 、 外业 、 外圆内方 、 禁止外出 、 外滩 、 外路 、 外交特权 、 外甥女婿 、 外销 、 道外 、 外延 、 外包 、 红外分光仪 、 里里外外 、 外观设计 、 表面外膜 、 外文系 、 吃里爬外 、 外放 、 外务省 、 外借 、 海外 、 外国语 、 以外 、 外地人 、 海外华人 、 外八字腿 、 城外 、 排外 、 驻外使 、 外卡 、 外分泌腺 、 外国公司 、 海外版 、 语数外 、 外援 、 外边 、 外爷 、 里外
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 2 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 226
- Scroll 3 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 185
- Scroll 1 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 128
- Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 106
- Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 92
- Scroll 2 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — count: 92
- Scroll 1 Commentary on the Dvādaśanikāyaśāstra 十二門論疏 — count: 91
- Scroll 7 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 87
- Scroll 1 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — count: 84
- Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 84
Collocations
- 制外 (製外) 制外怨敵 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 22
- 外怨敌 (外怨敵) 制外怨敵 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 22
- 外色 (外色) 內無色想觀外色 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 8 — count: 18
- 观外 (觀外) 觀外身 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 17
- 外见 (外見) 內思色外見色 — Sutra on the Law of Ten Rewards in the Dirghagama (Chang Ahan Shi Bao Fa Jing) 長阿含十報法經, Scroll 2 — count: 13
- 山外 (山外) 善見山外次有阿抄波山 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 6 — count: 12
- 外身 (外身) 外身身觀 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 11
- 外敌 (外敵) 威德降外敵 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
- 外门 (外門) 忉利天外門 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 3 — count: 5
- 外内 (外內) 外內清徹 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 22 — count: 4